Julie Mehretu Quotes

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

I think we are aware that post-racialism isn't real, right? I mean, I hope so. I kind of joke that we're post-post-racial.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

I don't think that the country is ever ready to have the conversation about race.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I don't want to draw nigger districts. I'm not going to draw a honky Republican district and I'm not going to draw a nigger district if I can help it.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and global politics on a scale that I don't think a lot of people imagined.

We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to racial issues. It's weird.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.